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Mercury News' Santa Clara and San Mateo counties high school sports blogThu, 23 Jul 2015 20:11:00 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3By: FootballFridayhttp://blogs.mercurynews.com/hssports/2012/11/16/football-preview-week-12-of-friday-night-under-the-lights/comment-page-1/#comment-39131
Sun, 18 Nov 2012 18:38:40 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/hssports/?p=3893#comment-39131Look at it this way: If you took all the players from the private schools and put them in their respective public schools, it would level the playing field. Privates schools have the best players collectively and plenty of them. Its just the facts. BTW…PALY matched Serra for one half but there were too many horses in that stable. Imagine Tolbert and Redwood in same backfield…

It’s tiresome to hear people crow about the WCAL. I agree with one of these posts, just follow YOUR team, not boasting about the dominance of WCAL.

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Sun, 18 Nov 2012 18:35:25 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/hssports/?p=3893#comment-39130Not to throw a wrench in the works but in the SJS the public schools seem to be pretty strong yet St. Mary’s and Jesuit still field great teams.
Look down south at Poly and Centennial, POWERFUL public programs.

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Sun, 18 Nov 2012 18:19:07 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/hssports/?p=3893#comment-39128CCS football – no we all got it. BTW I wasn’t the only one that looked at that as an odd score, SF defense or not. Several questioned their effort. Never said threw but questioned how much they really tried. could be seen as the same. To me a team that intentionally turns the ball over or drops passes threw the game. There is a difference between that and not giving it your best effort. However you said it wasn’t that way – so OK

You understand that Overfelt is a C team but still felt compelled to state SF shut them out, thus SF played pretty good defense again. That or Overfelt threw the game. Bragging about shutting down a C team down – good one

I don’t remember ever saying Redwood was the biggest part of them (more words you are putting into my mouth) but concede that he probably is.

I believe it was Some Guy that said the public school have an advantage because they all played together as they grew up. I pointed out that Redwood was playing against the core of his pop warner team, that BTW went to Orlando for it’s version of the super bowl

And I noticed you didn’t answer the question that a lot of us would love to hear – which public school boundaries are an advantage over others?

Once again public fans will always bring up the no boundary issue when privates act arrogant and don’t acknowledge, let alone appreciate, the advantage they have – Am not saying all private fans do that – just enough to get that response

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Sun, 18 Nov 2012 16:26:12 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/hssports/?p=3893#comment-39124Likeitis, you questioned whether Serra threw the game, specifically getting shutout. The offense is a big part f why a team gets shutout, and Redwood to your own omission is the biggest part of that offense. Get your facts/thoughts straight.
You are even staying with it.
I was defending St franics defense against Serra, which is outstanding, specifically against the run. Bellarmine had trouble with it, they have four shutouts, and bottomline, Serra had trouble with it.
Again, i have nothing against Overfelt, my point again was St francis defense. I understand they are a C level team, and i know how they made the CCS playoffs. My point was the st francis defense against serra, which you didn’t get last week, and for that matter, still don’t get.
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Sun, 18 Nov 2012 06:22:06 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/hssports/?p=3893#comment-39121CCS football – BTW I questioned Serra not Redwood – try to keep your facts straight. And I’ll try to type better
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Sun, 18 Nov 2012 06:01:40 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/hssports/?p=3893#comment-39120not declined…………..records of theirs……………its late
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Sun, 18 Nov 2012 06:00:03 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/hssports/?p=3893#comment-39119CCS football – really? A team SF should have more than clobbered? By far the worst team in the play-offs power point wise. A C team that would not be in the play-offs had San Jose had declined. A C team that played one B team and no As let alone an A+. Be proud that SF didn’t run it up more not that it was a stellar defensive showing. No, wait a second – Overfelt threw it. After looking at that record of others……………..

If anyone looked at the records, before and now after, any reasonable person would question what happened to Serra. I was willing to let it go. But seeing how you brought it back up. Really Serra?

And tell us about those public boundary advantages – we all would love to hear them

We do live with it while guys like you that like to rub it in – nice role model.

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Sun, 18 Nov 2012 05:07:57 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/hssports/?p=3893#comment-39118Marvin Navas, still waiting for your prediction on Burlingame upsetting Valley Christian this evening…………. how’s that pick of yours doing?
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Sun, 18 Nov 2012 05:05:53 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/hssports/?p=3893#comment-39117Likeitis, last week you thought Redwood/Serra threw the game against St Francis, scoring zero points. You lose credibility with each post. You gave St Francis zero credit for it’s defense. Yestedray, St francis played pretty good defense again, against Overfelt. Giving up zero yards, for the game. Do you think Overfelt threw that one?
The WCAL does has a few different advantages, but it’s number one advantage is kids want to go there from all parts of the valley, primarily for what they have to offer in Academics, Sports, etc.
There are a number of Public schools that have boundary advantages over other public schools. I don’t see you complaining about that!
The WCAL football program is stronger for a number of reasons, one of them being boundaries. Live with it.
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Sun, 18 Nov 2012 04:40:34 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/hssports/?p=3893#comment-39116Someguy – no – this is the first time you mentioned the more skilled team/ You brought up the hard work, public fans questioned it and you conceded some publics work hard too.

Nothing to figure out – no boundaries = huge advantage. Without that advantage Redwood plays for his public school and they are the more skilled. If you still think its who works harder over boundaries knowing that fact you really are drinking the private cool-aide